For A While (Ten Seconds More)

For a while I thought he was in love with me,
And then the whole world was magic.
His eyes were magic -
They would swallow my soul up
And leave me breathless,
Shivering from joy and wishing
He'd never tear his glance away.
His lips were magic portals
Into a world of tender longing,
And I used to dream about touching them,
And how soft they would press against my own.
His touch did something magic,
Something that cannot be replicated
By anything ordinary -
Which is, of course, what magic is.
It melted me into jelly,
Made me weak and lifeless,
Made me alive only where he touched me.

His touches burn me yet,
His eyes still haunt my every glance,
And I still dream sweet dreams of unkissed lips
That now can never be mine.

For a while I thought he was in love with me,
And then the whole world was magic.
But the other part of magic is that it ends,
And makes itself more special by
Replacing itself with the ordinary
And tearing away the foolish hope
That it might go on ten seconds more.